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Power 100: the top ten

November 9 2006, 12:00am, The Times

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John Buchanan has picked up his set of four non-executive directorships since retiring from the board of BP in 2002. He spent most of his career with the oil giant, which he joined in 1970, and of which he was chief financial officer from 1996 to 2002. Buchanan went on the board of Smith & Nephew as deputy chairman last year, and took the chairmanship this year. He joined Vodafone in 2003 and became deputy chairman this year. He joined BHP Billiton in 2003 and AstraZeneca in 2002. From 1997 to 2003, Buchanan was a non-executive director of Boots, the healthcare retailer, now merged with Alliance UniChem and known as Alliance Boots.